| Names: | Born: Samuel Finley Breese Morse
Other: Samuel Morse
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| | Dates: | 1791, 27 April - 1872, 2 April | | Born: | US, MA, Charlestown | | Active: | US |
American inventor and painter. He met Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre in Paris on 7th March 1839 and publicized the daguerreotype in the United States.Preparing biographies
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"Our Picture" featuring a short biographical letter by S.F.B. Morse.
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This text is excepted from an article in the January 1872 issue of The Philadelphia Photographer (Vol. IX, No. 97, pp 1-4.) The article appears opposite the title page portrait of Samuel F. B. Morse.
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